Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-10

THE ROAD TO LOS ANGELES.
Two gentlemen whose homes are in
Phoebe, Nevada, were in this city yesser-
day, says the Salt Lake Tribune, most
anxious to ascertain il there was any
probability of there being swift railroad
connection established between this city
and their region. They believe that if
the owners of the present roads only
thoroughly comprehended the business
which a railroad would be given in Pr
oche and in the country adjacent, and
how easy it would be to build a road
there, Phoebe would not remain isolated
as it is very long. They hold that from
this side Of Phoebe clear down through
the proposed intersection with the At
lantic & Pacific road, there is an almost
continuous series of low.grade mines,
which would supply almost unlimited
work for a transportation company IN
carrying coal and other supplies out and
bringing back ore. They point to the
fact, too, that it would be a passenger
route which would be generally taken by
people going from Southern California to
the East in the Summer, and in going
from the East to Southern California In
the Winter, as the route would be one
hundred and fifty miles nearer from this
city to Los Angeles than from here to
San Francisco. For any one living as
far south in California as Visalia or San
Luis Obispo, the nearest way out and in,
to and from the East, would be over this
route. If Salt Lake business men were as
game and alert, and as much in the habit
of working together as business men are.
they would see that this road was speed
lily built. 1t is already completed half
way to the A. &. P. The gap to fill is
Just about two hundred miles. That
would cost some 81, 500, OC0. We think
the Union Pacific would gladly supply
rails and rolling-stock, or at least would
transport the material on very easy terms
and make generous terms for the road to
connect with theirs. This would give
the new road one-third the proceeds Of
the whole line to Los Angeles. Ten per
cent in cost and ten per cent more for
working expenses would make it neces-
sary for this whole line of six hundred
miles to pay 81, 500, COO per annum, or
say $4,000 per day. Over the Central
Pacific for the same length of road the
receipts are quite five times that sum.
The grading. rails and ties would not
cost to exceed $1,000 per mile. We be-
lieve that on fair terms the Union Pacific
and A. h P. would supply the needed
rolling.stock for a percentage of the
traffic. If our people would subscribe to
twenty per cent of the stock, it would
be but a pony purse among them. and
the rest Eastern capitalists would loan
at seven per cent. The result would be
the subscribers would in a few years own
two hundred miles of valuable road and
the trade Of this city would be doubled
within q month after the completion OF
the road. By just such means Chicago
was raised from a village to a great city
in fifteen years. Speaking Of booms,
this would be a starter in earnest. A
little branch from the same line would
connect with the Carson h Colorado road
and open all the southern half of Nevada
up to trade with this city. The G. 4 c.
people might make that connection them.
selves in order to secure cheap coal and
their share of the passenger travel.
Some fifty mining districts would be
tributary to this line. and we suspect all
the larger towns of Southern California,
and certainly both the railroads there,
the Southern Pacific and the A. I. 4. S.
F., would receive their fuel over this
line, a great traffic of itself. 1t is mat.
ter quite worth the consideration of
gentlemen who really want a boom for
Salt Lake City.